Gabriela Women’s partylist Rep. Emmi De Jesus and Arlene Brosas filed House Resolution 829 on Wednesday, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to seek executive clemency ?from the ?United Arab Emirates government ?for an overseas Filipino worker from General Santos City who is facing an execution.
Philippine Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said some countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are not yet ready to commit to a legally binding document that will include the protection and promotion of the rights of the migrant workers in the ASEAN region.
Ren Clacer, member of the New Jersey Filipino Women’s Organizing Committee, said they ?were alarmed with Trump's "unjust policies towards immigrants, the poor, people of color, and other marginalized groups - further oppressing people who are victims of US policies in their homelands."
A migrant group here ?has urged the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration to strengthen the protection mechanism of the migrants and their families instead of creating a policy that would prohibit mothers to leave young children to designated guardians while working abroad.
A policy center advocating migrant workers' rights said they were able to assist almost 200 skilled workers, most of whom are from Davao City, who were victimized by illegal recruiters.